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Gurmeet Ram Rahim demands parole: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim has demanded parole for 20 days before the Haryana Assembly elections. The government has sent a request to the Chief Electoral Officer of the state to release the Dera chief on parole. The jail department has been asked to give concrete and necessary reasons behind the request.
Haryana CEO has asked the state government if there is any emergency to release the Dera chief on parole. Let us tell you that according to the law, if it is necessary to release a prisoner on parole during elections, then the CEO. Approval must be obtained.
The Dera spokesperson said, since Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is entitled to provisional release for 91 days in a calendar year, his request for 20 days parole is in accordance with the law. Dera chief Gurmeet Singh, who was serving life imprisonment in Rohtak's Sunaria jail on charges of rape and murder, got 30 days leave for the first time on June 17, 2022.
Even during that time he was staying in Barnava Ashram. On July 18, 2022, he went to Sunaria jail. After this, he was released from jail for the second time on 15 October, for the third time on 21 January 2023, for the fourth time on 3 March, for the fifth time on 20 August and for the sixth time on 13 December. There was a 21-day furlough on August 13.
Let us tell you that Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has often been accused of trying to influence his followers, most of whom live in Haryana, to vote a certain way in elections.